class="smcap lowercase">Plantagenet Costume. (Plates 31-32)

86 Mail Armour. (Plate 33) 93 Early English Architecture. (Plates 34-35) 98 Mixed Mail and Plate Armour. (Plate 36) 103 Lancastrian and Yorkist Periods.   Male Costumes. (Plate 37) 107 Female Costumes. (Plate 38) 113 Plate Armour. (Plate 39) 115 Decorated Architecture. (Plates 40-41) 119 Tudor Period.   Male Costumes. (Plate 42) 126 Female Costumes. (Plate 43) 131 Plate Armour. (Plate 44) 136 Perpendicular Architecture. (Plates 45-46) 141 Stuart Period (To William III.).   Male Costumes. (Plate 47) 144 Female Costumes. (Plates 48-49) 151 Arms and Armour.—To end of Charles II. (Plate 50) 155 Anne, George I. and George II.   Male Costumes. (Plate 51) 159 Female Costumes. (Plate 52) 163 George III.   Male Costumes. (Plate 53) 165 Female Costumes. (Plate 54) 169 The Monastic Orders. (Plate 55) 173 General Plan of a Monastery. (Plate 56) 174 The Friars and Canons. (Plate 57) 177 Military Monastic Orders. (Plate 58) 181 Ecclesiastical Costumes and Vestments. (Plate 59) 185 Pilgrims. (Plate 60) 189

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THE STONE AGE.

The Flint Weapons of Prehistoric Man in Britain.

When Britain was joined to the continent of Europe (at the time when the mammoth lived), it was inhabited by the Palæolithic or Ancient Stone men. They were ignorant of the use of metals, and used implements of bone and of rudely chipped stone and flint, which they did not know how to fasten to handles. These implements and weapons, of a different type from those of later periods, are found in the river beds of drifts, and these early people are spoken of as the “Drift men.”

Cave-dwelling Palæolithic men succeeded these. Their weapons were still very rude, but they made handles and fixed them to the flints, so forming arrows, lances or javelins, and axes.

These were followed by a race called Neolithic men, or men of the New Stone Age. Their stone implements were better shaped, more highly finished, were often ground smooth, and even polished. They also made a rude kind of pottery. These men were, doubtless, of